MECHANOBIOLOGY - Key Persons


Agnes Soos

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Alan Lam

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Aleks wins Young

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Bryan Gellner

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Christopher Moraes

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Cindy Ying Yin Yip

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Craig A. Simmons

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Craig runs this large bioengineering lab and makes sure everyone knows what they are doing and can keep on doing it. His lab investigates how biomechanical forces on cells lead to regeneration, repair, and disease of cardiovascular tissues. Our dynamic team of engineers, biomedical scientists, and physicists tackle applied biomedical problems in the areas of heart valve mechanobiology and disease, stem cell-based tissue regeneration, and microfluidic physiological systems. Training and assisting students with their projects are parts of my job. My major project is to dete...

Daniella Eliathamby

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Edmond Young

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Haijiao Liu

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Hoda Maleki

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Jade Huang

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  • Thesis Student / Department of Cells & Systems Biology
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Jan-Hung Chen

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Jenna Usprech

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Jeremy Wong

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Krista Sider

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Laura-lee Caruso

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Lily Takeuchi

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Mark Blaser

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Mingyi Tang

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McClarty Davis, Ouzounian Maral, Tang Mingyi, Eliathamby Daniella, Romero David, Nguyen Elsie, Simmons Craig A., Amon Cristina, Chung Jennifer C-Y. Ascending aortic aneurysm haemodynamics are associated with aortic wall biomechanical properties. European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. 2021 | Oxford Academic

Neal Callaghan

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Neda Latifi

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My research project mainly focuses on addressing the current challenges in the development of a tissue-like living engineered heart valve replacement for the stenotic pulmonary valve in pediatric patients with Tetralogy of Fallot. Together with another postdoctoral fellow, Nataly, and two PhD students, Shouka and Bahram, we are going to ultimately generate an engineered construct that better recapitulates the composition and organization of the extracellular matrix, and the mechanical properties of the native pulmonary heart valve tissue. In parallel, I am working on the generation of allogenic heart valve tissue for in vivo investigations using a pig model.

Oleg Chebotarev

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Rachel Adams

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Ross Fitzsimmons

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Ruogang Zhao

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Suthan Srigunapalan

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Tom Ding

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Vrushali Guruji

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Wen Li Kelly Chen

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Wing-Yee Cheung

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Zahra Mirzaei

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  • Laboratory Coordinator / Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering / Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
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Training and assisting students with their projects are parts of my job. My major project is to determine the signaling pathways involved in calcific aortic valve sclerosis. I am particularly interested in the mechanisms by which valve interstitial cells differentiate to calcifying phenotypes in response to mechanical stress. My research project mainly focuses on addressing the current challenges in the development of a tiss...

Zena M. Miranda

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